Archives - 12 February 2018, Monday

As the drone moves forward, it takes a continuous sequence of depth sensor snapshots (at something like 30 Hz, depending on the sensor), represented by the gray triangles* above. See that little curvy blue line? Let’s say that’s the trajectory that you want the drone to fly along next...

The IBM 1401 is undeniably a classic computer. One of IBM’s most “affordable” mainframes, it ruled the small business computing world of the 1960’s. Unfortunately, computers aren’t often thought of as treasured heirlooms, only a handful of these machines survive today. The computer hi...

You might wonder why you couldn’t use a single docking port for resupply. Why couldn’t you temporarily undock the crew-carrying Soyuz from the station, dock and unload the Progress, and then redock the Soyuz? One reason was made clear a few years later on the Mir space station during ...

Sometimes you have an idea that is so brilliant and so crazy that you just have to make it a reality. In 2011, [Look Mum No Computer] drew up plans in his notebook for a Furby organ, an organ comprised of a keyboard and a choir of Furbies . For those who don’t know know what a Furby i...

How does one go about programming a drone to fly itself through the real world to a location without crashing into something? This is a tough problem, made even tougher if you’re pushing speeds higher and high. But any article with “MIT” implies the problems being engineered are not t...

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Debuggers come in all shapes and sizes, offering a variety of options to track down your software problems and inspecting internal states at any given time. Yet some developers have a hard time breaking the habit of simply adding print statements into their code instead, performing ma...

Some experts in advanced manufacturing are distinguishing between “digitization” of manufacturing processes and the “digitalization” of the processes. While the words seem to have the same meaning on the face, the two words actually mean something quite different. Digitization is the ...

We love a good clock build around here, especially if it tells time in a unique way. This 4-stroke digital clock designed by [lagsilva] takes the checkered flag in that category. As it displays the time, it also demonstrates the operation of an internal combustion engine. The numbers ...

Early Bird tickets for Hackaday Belgrade have just gone on sale, but they will not last long. This is Hackaday’s premier European hardware conference with talks, workshops, great food and drink, entertainment, and a hardware badge for hacking and demos. Festivities will go all day on ...

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Are you a student? Are you part of a hackerspace? We have a contest going on right now where you can win a fancy new Prusa i3 MK3. The Repairs You Can Print contest is a challenge to do something useful with that machine that spits out tugboats. We’re looking for functional repairs of...

The PocketSprite is the tiniest fully-functional Game Boy Color and Sega Master System emulator. Not only is it small enough to fit in your pocket, it’s small enough to lose in your pocket. It’s now available as a CrowdSupply campaign , and it’s everything you could ever want in a por...

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We all have that one possession—maybe more than one—that we’ve had forever and refuse to let go of, even though it has seen better days. When that something is a useful appliance, it can be heartbreaking to watch it deteriorate. For [Elmojo], that thing is a 10+ year old Medusa-style ...

Among other features, it incorporates Voice Assistant Capabilities, IFTTT (“If This Then That”) Integration, IoT Cloud Service, Sensor Monitor and Dashboard, Custom Notifications with Image and Video and One Tap Multi-Board Upload. “The versatility of GraspIO Cloudio along with its ea...

The electronics industry exists in a continuous state of evolution. The world’s biggest companies are either launching new products, or refining and improving existing ones. In keeping with consumer expectations, manufacturers are under pressure to deliver sleek and slender designs wi...

About US$ 11 trillion worldwide – that is the number the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) , an international think tank, estimates the economic added value of modern IoT applications will amount to by the year 2025. The Internet of Things (IoT) has the potential for the greatest impact...

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The development cycle for traditional security markets is a largely reactive one, where coding is developed mostly on an informal agile basis, with no risk mitigation and no coding guidelines. The resulting executables are then subjected to performance, penetration, load, and function...

American manufacturers need to step up and invest in training and education for a new breed of digital factory jobs, otherwise those jobs will leave the country, an expert will say at the upcoming Pacific Design & Manufacturing conference. “Our big message is that blue collar jobs hav...

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Wood is surely one of the most versatile materials available. It can be found in a huge variety of colours and physical properties depending on the variety of the tree that grew it, and it has been fashioned into all conceivable devices, products, and structures over millenia. It’s no...

In a collaborative project, the University at Buffalo (UB) and Institute of Semiconductors at Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) are working together to devise a metallic tab, known as the triboelectric nanogenerator. The most common form of triboelectric charging is static electricity ...

Its 4.5V to 150V input voltage range operates from a high input voltage source or from an input that has high voltage surges, eliminating the need for external surge suppression devices, ideal for transportation, industrial and medical applications. To prevent high on-chip power dissi...

But what are the opportunities surrounding voice in testing environments, and on the flip side, what are the challenges companies must look to overcome when looking to get the most out of voice recognition from a testing perspective? AI, machine learning, and analytics are most effect...

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The search for longer battery life has led to the increasing adoption of brushless dc (BLDC) motors over brushed designs. In traditional automobiles with internal combustion engines, BLDCs power accessories such as electric mirrors, fans for ventilation and cooling, and seat motors; i...

Embedded World invited the Foundation to host a full-day RISC-V track on Tuesday, Feb. 27. The speaking track, called RISC-V Class, will feature 10 half hour presentations from member companies, universities and the Foundation. During the RISC-V track, speakers will discuss the role o...

We all know that security (or at least talking about it) is all the rage, although most of that attention relates to software. But hardware too? Yes, hardware too. However, today, we’re not going to talk about hardware that’s providing security to something else; we want to talk about...

For US TV audiences a video of a previous show was broadcast. A trifle cheekily Intel tweeted ‘See how our drone team pulled off a Guinness World Record title for the Opening Ceremony’. The Olympic organising committee stated: “During the Ceremony, POCOG (PyeongChang Olympic Games) ma...